Dhaka, April 23 – The Chamber court yesterday stayed till May 13 the High Court proceedings on the rule regarding compensation to Jaha Alam who was wrongly imprisoned for three years in connection with 26 fraud cases. Jute mill worker…
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Body of Sheikh Selim’s grandson to arrive from Lanka Tuesday
Dhaka, April 22 – The body of the ruling Awami League veteran leader Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury, 8, will be brought home on Tuesday noon. Zayan was killed in the Sri Lanka attacks that claimed at least…
3 school-going first drown while taking bath in Padma River
Rajshahi, Apr 21 (UNB) – Three girls drowned in the Padma river in Bagha upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jeam, 17, a class XI student of Mirganj College, Esha Khatun, 9, a student of Bagha Government Primary…
4 killed in Mymensingh road crash
Mymensingh, Apr 20 (UNB) – At least four people, including a woman, were killed and two others injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw and a human hauler on Mymensingh-Haluaghat road at Alalpur in the city on Saturday morning. The…
Mining: ‘A Question of Life or Death’
STOCKHOLM, Apr 18 2019 (IPS) – The mining industry is one of the world’s most dangerous industries. Globally, the death toll is at least 14,000 workers per year. But how many lives are actually lost is something that neither trade unions,…
Probe over Titumir student Rajib killing deferred
Dhaka, April 18 – A Dhaka court Thursday directed Shahbagh Police Station to submit probe report by May 22 in the case filed over the death of Titumir College student Rajib Hossain in April last year. Magistrate Md Sarafuzzaman Ansary…
8 people killed in Joypurhat bus plunge
Joypurhat, Apr 12 (UNB) – At least eight people, including three children, were killed and over 30 others injured as a bus plunged into a ditch on Bogura-Jashore road at Baniapara in Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased could not…
8 people killed in Joypurhat bus plunge
Joypurhat, Apr 12 (UNB) – At least eight people, including three children, were killed and over 30 others injured as a bus plunged into a ditch on Bogura-Jashore road at Baniapara in Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased could not…
Two sons of Wahed Mansion owner on remand
Dhaka, April 8 – A Dhaka court on Monday granted seven days’ remand to two sons of Wahed Mansion’s owner in a case lodged by a local resident over the deadly fire in the Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area. Magistrate Rajesh…
Factory bus plunges into monsoon drain in Malaysia: 10 dead
SEPANG: Ten people were killed as the factory bus they were in plunged into a monsoon drain along Jalan S8 Pekeliling, near MAS Kargo, KL International Airport here Sunday (April 7). Eight foreigners and a local bus driver were killed…
Mother, 3 kids burned in Dhaka kitchen gas cylinder blast
Dhaka, Apr 6 (UNB) – A woman and her three children sustained burn injuries in a gas cylinder blast in the city’s Kadamtali area on Saturday night. The victims are Fatema Begum, 35, her sons Rafi, 11, and Safawan, 5, and…
Fire at Chattagong super shop burns valuables
Chattogram, Apr 6 (UNB) – A fire broke out at a super shop in Kazir Deuri area in the city on Saturday morning. The fire broke out on the second floor of ‘Shopping Bag’ super shop from an electric short…
Bus overturns killing 5 in northern BD district of Gaibandha
Gaibandha, Apr 6 (UNB) – At least five bus people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus overturned on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Jummar Ghar area in Gobindaganj upazila early Saturday. Three of the deceased were identified as Riaz…
Fire at Dhaka’s Baridhara, Shantinagar residential buildings doused
Dhaka, Apr 4 – Two incidents of fire were reported at two residential buildings in Capital Dhaka on Thursday evening and Friday Morning. In the first incident at Shantinagar the fire originated from a kitchen and in the second ar…
Police seek 10-day remand for Wahed Mansion owner
Dhaka, April 04 – City’s Chawkbazar Police on Thursday sought a 10-day remand for quizzing two owners of the Wahed Mansion, the centre of devastating Chawkbazar fire, in a case filed about the death of 70 persons. Officer-in-Charge (Investigation) of…
Fire burns 25 shops in BD Capital Dhaka’s Khilgaon
Dhaka, Apr 4 (UNB) – At least 25 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at two markets in the city’s Khilgaon area early Thursday. Deputy assistant director Kazi Najimozzaman of Fire Service and Civil Defense said the…
90 pc Dhaka buildings have no fire safety provision: Survey
Dhaka, April 03 – After the deadly fire at Banani’s FR tower the government agencies are now active to inspection high rise buildings in the capital, which finds most of them were violated building code and made the structure dangerous…
Buriganga boat capsize death toll rises to 5
Keraniganj, April 2 (UNB) –The body of the boatman, who went missing in a boat capsize in the Buriganga river during Sunday night’s storm, was recovered from the river in Barishur area on Tuesday morning. The death toll from the…
BD High Court asks for report on highrise building fire
Dhaka, April 01 – The High Court (HC)on Monday directed the authorities concerned to submit a detailed report before it about fire suppression systems and fire safety measures in high-rise buildings in the capital city Dhaka. The mayors of Dhaka…
Houses, shops gutted in Gazipur fire incidents near Dhaka
Gazipur, Apr 1 (UNB) –At least three houses, five shops and a sweater factory were gutted in separate fire incidents in the district from Sunday night to early Monday. Md Jakir Hossain, senior station officer of Joydebpur Fire Station, said…
PM Hasina orders yearly clearance for Dhaka high-rises
Dhaka, Apr 1 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday came up with a number of directives, including the introduction of yearly renewal of clearance certificates for high-rises from Fire Service and Civil Defence Department like industrial units, aiming…
3 including female Ansar missing as trawler sinks in Meghna
Munshiganj, Mar 31 – A presiding officer, a policeman and a female Ansar member went missing as a trawler, carrying 19 election officials, capsized in the Meghna River during a sudden storm at Char Hogla in Sonargaon Upazila on Sunday…
Dhaka South Mayor asks for demolishing illegal building
Dhaka, March 31 – Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon yesterday challenged Rajdhani Unnyan Katripakkha (RAJUK) to demolish a building owned by an influential person. “No one in the city believes that any building owned by an…
Dhaka highrise fire: Arrested building owners on remand
Dhaka, Mar 31 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday placed Faruk Hossain, land owner and Tasvir Ul Islam , owner of the extended portion of FR Tower, on a seven-day remand each, in connection with a case filed over…
Dhaka South City Mayor suspects sabotage in fire incidents
Dhaka, Mar 30 – Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokon on Saturday directed the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence to ascertain whether the recent incidents of fire were acts of sabotage. He came up with the directive at…
BNP slams govt for ‘failure’ to modernise fire service
Dhaka, Mar 30 – BNP on Saturday alleged that the government has failed to modernise the Fire Service and Civil Defence with modern life-saving equipment as it has only enhanced the capacity of law enforcers to “suppress the opposition”. Speaking…
B Chy for judicial commission to probe fire incidents
Dhaka, Mar 30 – President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) Dr AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Saturday called for forming a judicial probe commission to ensure proper investigations into the recent deadly fire incidents. In a statement, he also voiced deep…
221 shops gutted in Gulshan DNCC kitchen market fire
Dhaka, Mar 30 – Just two days after a major fire in the Dhaka’s Banani area left 25 people dead, another fire broke out at Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan area early Saturday and gutted all…
Dhaka highrise fire death toll climbs to 25
Dhaka, Mar 29 (UNB) – The death toll from the devastating fire at FR Tower in the city’s Banani area rose to 25 as six more bodies were recovered from the spot on Friday morning. Talking to reporters at the…
Dr Kamal for national commission to ensure building safety
Dhaka, Mar 29 (UNB) – Jatiya Oikyafront convener Dr Kamal Hossain on Friday suggested formation of a national commission to find out whether there is any lack of law in ensuring safe construction of high-rise buildings in the country. “We…